The 1970 discovery in Chesapeake Bay of a stone blade which appears to be 22,000 years old has "reopened debate on a radical theory about who the first Americans were and when they got here," according to the Washington Post.
The "radical" theory this writer is talking about is the Solutrean Hypothesis, which states that Stone Age Europeans may have crossed the Atlantic to North America thousands of years before the Siberian ancestors of modern day "Native Americans" crossed over from Asia.
If this stone blade is actually 22,000 years old, it presents yet another problem to mainstream archaeology, which apparently believes that North America wasn't populated at all until around 15,000 years ago.
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